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The Works of Aphra Behn Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Works of Aphra Behn novel. A total of 540 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Aphra Behn.by Aphra Behn.PREFACE.It is perhaps not altogether easy to appre
The Works of Aphra Behn.by Aphra Behn.PREFACE.It is perhaps not altogether easy to appreciate the multiplicity of difficulties with which the first editor of Mrs. Behn has to cope. Not only is her life strangely mysterious and obscure, but the rubbish of
- 501 _Prince._ As Gat shall save me, Sir, I am sorry for it--another time, Sir: I have earnest business. Now, I am sure nothing worth seeing can belong to this litter of Fools.L. _Blun._ My Daughter is a Person of Quality, I a.s.sure you, Sir._Prince._ I doubt
- 502 _Prince._ That's well, he has told me--Where have I been this long half hour, and more?Sir _Mer._ Nay, the Lord knows._Prince._ I fancy'd I saw a lovely Woman.Sir _Mer._ Fancy'd--why, so you did, Man, my Lady _Mirtilla Blunder_._Prince._ Me
- 503 _Dialogues in the Masque, at the beginning of the third Act._ _He._ Time and Place you see conspire, With tender Wishes, fierce Desire; See the willing Victim stands To be offer'd by your Hands: Ah! Let me on Love's Altars lying, Clasp my G.o.dd
- 504 _Ter._ Then to all the small Villages, call'd little Freedoms, Kissing, Playing, Fooling, Sighing, Dying--and so on to the last Stage, where Whip and Spur laid by, all tir'd and dull, you lazily lie down and sleep._Geo._ No, I'm a more vigo
- 505 _Oliv._ But this is a Maid, Sir._Wel._ Worse still! At every turn she's raving on her Honour; then if she have a Kinsman, or a Brother, I must be challeng'd._Oliv._ Sir, you mistake, my Lady is for Matrimony._Wel._ How!_Oliv._ You have not forsw
- 506 _Mir._ Think not the mighty Present of your Jewels, enough to purchase Provinces, has bought one single Sigh, or Wish: No, my dear Prince, you owe 'em all to Love, and your own Charms._Geo._ Oh, d.a.m.n'd, dissembling Jilt! [Aside._Prince._ No m
- 507 _Prince._ No, my _Mirtilla_, if it be thy Fate, I'll grasp thee, ev'n in Flames, and die with thee._Mir._ We die! we die! the Flame takes hold of us.Enter _George_ with a Ladder, and puts it to the Window._Prince._ Ha! some pitying G.o.d takes c
- 508 _Man._ Those whose Influence are always gracious to your Ladys.h.i.+p._Mir._ But where's the Prince? where's my ill.u.s.trious Lover?_Man._ Waiting the Return of the Chair, Madam._Mir._ But my _Endimion_?--Is _Endimion_ safe?_Man._ Madam, he is:
- 509 _Oliv._ As well as I can act it.Enter _Welborn_, habited as last.That all Mankind are d.a.m.n'd, I'm positive; at least all Lovers are._Wel._ What have we here? the Spark that rally'd me about a Woman at the Ball to night? Who is it, Sir, y
- 510 _Geo._ Perhaps I may before the Morning's dawn._Prince._ Ha, prove it here--here, in this very House!_Geo._ Ay, here, Sir._Prince._ What, in my Lodgings will she receive her Spark--by Heaven, were he the darling Son of a Monarch, an Empire's Hop
- 511 _Prince._ No, wondrous glad of it. You're mighty gay, _Mirtilla_, much in Glory._Mir._ Can he, who lays his Fortune at my Feet, think me too glorious for his Arms and Eyes?_Geo._ Fifty to one the Gipsy jilts him yet. [Aside._Prince._ Pray Heaven she
- 512 Sir _Row._ What's here, my Rogue?_Tw.a.n.g._ What's the matter, Gentlemen, that ye enter the House in this hostile manner?Sir _Morg._ What, Mr. _Tw.a.n.g_, de see!Sir _Mer._ Ay, ay--stand by Divinity--and know, that we, the Pillars of the Nation
- 513 _Ter._ He doubts your Love, Madam, and I'm confirming it.L. _Youth._ Alas, good Gentleman!--anon I'll convince him--for in the Ev'ning, Sir, the Priest shall make us one._Geo._ Ah, Madam, I cou'd wish 'twere not so long defer'
- 514 _Oliv._ An a.s.signation from your perjur'd Mistress, Sir._Geo._ 'Tis well--you must obey the Summons; and wind her up to all the height of Love; then let her loose to Shame. I'll bring her Lover in the height of Dalliance, who, when he see
- 515 _Man._ Yes, Madam._Mir._ Then bring _Endimion_ to me._Man._ Madam, I wish you'd think no more of him; for I foresee, that this Amour must ruin you. Remember you have left a Husband for the Prince._Mir._ A Husband! my Drudge, to toil for me, and save
- 516 _Prince._ Ah! wouldst thou see me on a Precipice, and not prevent my Danger?_Geo._ To mightier Friends.h.i.+p I cou'd all surrender, and silently have born her Perjuries; but those to you, awaken'd all my Rage: but she has out-trick'd me, a
- 517 L. _Youth._ Why, _Lettice_ tells me, she went to buy some Trifles to adorn her this Night--Her Governante is with her, and my Steward.Enter Mr. _Tw.a.n.g_._Tw.a.n.g._ Alas, what pity 'tis; the Supper is quite spoil'd, and no Bridegroom come!_A N
- 518 Sir _Morg._ As gad shall sa me, Sir, youre a civil Person; and now I find you can endure a Woman, Sir, Ill give you leave to visit her. Sir _Row._ Well, since were all agreed, and that the Fiddles are here, adsnigs, well have a Dance, Sweet-heart, though
- 519 The Works of Aphra Behn.by Aphra Behn.Volume V.THE ADVENTURE OF THE _BLACK LADY_.About the Beginning of last _June_ (as near as I can remember) _Bellamora_ came to Town from _Hamps.h.i.+re_, and was obliged to lodge the first Night at the same Inn where t
- 520 THE _UNFORTUNATE HAPPY LADY_: A True History.I cannot omit giving the World an account, of the uncommon Villany of a Gentleman of a good Family in _England_ practis'd upon his Sister, which was attested to me by one who liv'd in the Family, and
- 521 To HENRY PAIN, ESQ; Sir, Dedications are like Love, and no Man of Wit or Eminence escapes them; early or late, the Affliction of the Poet's Complement falls upon him; and Men are oblig'd to receive 'em as they do their Wives; _For better, for worse_; a
- 522 It happen'd to be on the Eve of that Day when she was to receive the Sacrament, that she, covering herself with her Veil, came to _Vespers_, purposing to make Choice of the conquering Friar for her Confessor.She approach'd him; and as she did so, she tr
- 523 The next Day, she was tried in open and common Court; where she appeared in Glory, led by _Tarquin_, and attended according to her Quality: And she could not deny all the Page had alledged against her, who was brought thither also in Chains; and after a g
- 524 Mother Somelie is, of course, the notorious Mother Mosely.Henry Payne wrote several loyal pamphlets, and after the Revolution he became, according to Burnet, 'the most active and determined of all King James' agents.' He is said to have been the chief
- 525 A War-Captain is a Man who has led them on to Battle with Conduct and Success; of whom I shall have Occasion to speak more hereafter, and of some other of their Customs and Manners, as they fall in my Way.With these People, as I said, we live in perfect T
- 526 But while they were thus fondly employ'd, forgetting how Time ran on, and that the Dawn must conduct him far away from his only Happiness, they heard a great Noise in the _Otan_, and unusual Voices of Men; at which the Prince, starting from the Arms of t
- 527 Sometimes we would go surprising, and in Search of young _Tygers_ in their Dens, watching when the old ones went forth to forage for Prey; and oftentimes we have been in great Danger, and have fled apace for our Lives, when surpriz'd by the Dams. But onc
- 528 p. 207 _one Banister_. Sergeant Major James Banister being, after Byam's departure in 1667, 'the only remaining eminent person' became Lieutenant-Governor. It was he who in 1668 made the final surrender of the colony. Later, having quarrelled with the
- 529 _Elvira_ did not only know the Writing of _Don Pedro_, but she knew also that he could write Verses. And seeing the sad Part which _Constantia_ had in these which were now fallen into her hands, she made no scruple of resolving to let the Princess see 'e
- 530 The courageous _Agnes_ was scarce Mistress of the first Transports, at a Discourse so full of Contempt; but calling her Virtue to the aid of her Anger, she recover'd herself by the a.s.sistance of Reason: And considering the Outrage she receiv'd, not as
- 531 These Words made the fair _Agnes de Castro_ perceive that her Innocency was not so great as she imagined, and that her Heart interested it self in the Preservation of _Don Pedro_: 'You ought, Sir, to preserve your Life (reply'd _Agnes_) for the
- 532 Innocent Adultere_ which translated was so popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. Bellmour carried it in his pocket when he went a-courting Laet.i.tia, to the horror of old Fondlewife who discovered the tome, (_The Old Batchelor_, 1693), and Lydia Langui
- 533 'Sir, (said she) perhaps you will wonder, where I, a Maid, brought up in the simplicity of Virtue, should learn the Confidence, not only to hear of Love from you, but to confess I am sensible of the most violent of its Pain my self; and I wonder, and
- 534 THE NUN: or, The Perjur'd Beauty.A TRUE NOVEL.Don _Henrique_ was a Person of great Birth, of a great Estate, of a Bravery equal to either, of a most generous Education, but of more Pa.s.sion than Reason: He was besides of an opener and freer Temper t
- 535 THE LUCKY MISTAKE: A NEW NOVEL.The River _Loyre_ has on its delightful Banks abundance of handsome, beautiful and rich Towns and Villages, to which the n.o.ble Stream adds no small Graces and Advantages, blessing their Fields with Plenty, and their Eyes w
- 536 The next Day, at Dinner, Monsieur _Bellyaurd_ believing his Son absolutely cur'd, by Absence, of his Pa.s.sion; and speaking of all the News in the Town, among the rest, told him he was come in good time to dance at the Wedding of Count _Vernole_ wit
- 537 This Letter _Belvira_ receiv'd with unspeakable Joy, and laid it up safely in her Bosom; laid it, where the dear Author of it lay before, and wonderfully pleas'd with his Humour of writing Verse, resolv'd not to be at all behind-hand with h
- 538 The Eldest, called _Belvideera_, was indefatigably addicted to Study, which she had improv'd so far, that by the sixteenth Year of her Age, she understood all the _European_ Languages, and cou'd speak most of'em, but was particularly pleas&
- 539 Possibly, Sir _Christian_, I shall surprize you with the Discourse I'm going to make you; but 'tis certain no Man can avoid the Necessity of the Fate which he lies under; at least I have now found it so.--I came at first, Sir, with the Hopes of prevaili
- 540 In Lies, I mean, on one Side or other; for he told me to my Teeth, at least, he said in my Hearing, on the Bowling-Green, but two Nights since, that he hop'd to see your Ladys.h.i.+p (for I suppose you are his Mistress) that Night e're 'twa